i didn't think you were capable of hiring an awesome english 103 instructor. i thought i would never see a WOC in this position. i say this because i did my researcher before i registered for my class months ago. i read reviews on ratemyproessfor.com and i settled for Macek, only because he had the the highest score...3 out of 5 starts. basically LACC, all of your english 103 teachers suck....except for ms. monqiue matthews. :-D
my schedule said MACEK but ms. matthews walked into the class on tuesday evening. she took roll and gave us an essay question. she teaches mostly at Santa Moncia College on the west side of los angeles, perhaps i'll attend a class there once i get a car. because this lady completely kicks ASS!! she's calm and LISTENS to her students needs. she knows it's NOT ABOUT HER EGO! it's like the universe heard all of my frustration of last semester and it granted me with this awesome teacher. we're reading essays by PEOPLE OF COLOR!!! my semesters of reading faulkner and UK britian are OVER!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!
didn't my past english teachers at LACC considered the fact that most of their students are not white and don't want to read about dead white people? i read about white people throughout all of my time in high school, i would think college would be a bit more progressive in their reading material? especially in an english 103 critical thinking class? blug. but i'm fortunate to have ms. matthews as my instructor this semester. it's only an 8 wk course and her syllabus wasn't crazy complicated. we saw the documentary 42 UP on thursday and that's our next essay that's due in two weeks. that alone makes her WAAAAY better than corbett from last semester. i'm looking forward to improving my writing skills and take it to the next level. yay.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Top Chef
i caught up on top chef last night. i am HAPPY that michael got voted the fuck OFF!! he was a total asshole throughout the whole season. he FAILED miserably with the vegetarian challenge. i loved how he had the nerve to take no accountability for his awful dish. his plate wasn't even a fucking dish, it was a mess. who in the HELL would think to have leeks as the main course?!? especially his leeks with no flavor and nasty looking. i even knew those leeks were bad and that's sad because i'm watching it on TV. michael was even talking shit about robin and jennifer while he was leaving. don't let the kitchen door hit ya on the way out micahel, you suck.
another person i PRAY to see fail on top chef is eli. this guy is even a BIGGER asshole than michael. when michael went to pack his knives, eli threw a wee tantrum in the waiting room. he slammed the shelf with his hands....GRRRRRR....WAH!!! whatever eli. you're only sad because now you don't have your asshole friend use to help you gang up on robin. he ALSO has been on TV before!! he's been one of the side chefs for one of the iron chefs on iron chef america. he's cocky and thinks he the SHIT. automatically i want the bastard to fail because of this.
both eli and micahel treated robin like shit throughout the season. i think it would be awesome if robin makes it. she's getting anxious and doubting herself constantly...most likely she will not. she's been on the bottom 3 a lot too...but i'm sad that there isn't a lot of women left. robin and jennifer are starting to lose their minds with the pressure... i hope they can bring it.
but i am cheering for kevin and bryan to make it to the top 3. both of these guys are AMAZING chefs and know what is up! i am also completely crushed out on bryan!! he's tall, serious and my heart goes pitter patter for him when he's on the screen...read more about him here if you like. he can cook for me anytime!! for real. ;-)
i've been diggin' this season and i really don't know why. perhaps it's the vegas factor that brings it out. but can they stop bringing back toby young to the judges table?!? this guy is so full of himself and fucked up. in episode 6 of this season, he corrected someone of SPANISH DECENT how to say paella. a WHITE BRITISH MAN correcting a SPANISH WOMAN who originally KNEW what dumbfuck toby was talking about. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shut the hell up toby and get off the judges table for real. i saw a commercial for next week and toby is back and stupid as ever. BOOOOOOOOOO!
this is the first time i've watched top chef from the beginning, so i feel watching it until the end is the way to go. go kevin and bryan!!
another person i PRAY to see fail on top chef is eli. this guy is even a BIGGER asshole than michael. when michael went to pack his knives, eli threw a wee tantrum in the waiting room. he slammed the shelf with his hands....GRRRRRR....WAH!!! whatever eli. you're only sad because now you don't have your asshole friend use to help you gang up on robin. he ALSO has been on TV before!! he's been one of the side chefs for one of the iron chefs on iron chef america. he's cocky and thinks he the SHIT. automatically i want the bastard to fail because of this.
both eli and micahel treated robin like shit throughout the season. i think it would be awesome if robin makes it. she's getting anxious and doubting herself constantly...most likely she will not. she's been on the bottom 3 a lot too...but i'm sad that there isn't a lot of women left. robin and jennifer are starting to lose their minds with the pressure... i hope they can bring it.
but i am cheering for kevin and bryan to make it to the top 3. both of these guys are AMAZING chefs and know what is up! i am also completely crushed out on bryan!! he's tall, serious and my heart goes pitter patter for him when he's on the screen...read more about him here if you like. he can cook for me anytime!! for real. ;-)
i've been diggin' this season and i really don't know why. perhaps it's the vegas factor that brings it out. but can they stop bringing back toby young to the judges table?!? this guy is so full of himself and fucked up. in episode 6 of this season, he corrected someone of SPANISH DECENT how to say paella. a WHITE BRITISH MAN correcting a SPANISH WOMAN who originally KNEW what dumbfuck toby was talking about. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! shut the hell up toby and get off the judges table for real. i saw a commercial for next week and toby is back and stupid as ever. BOOOOOOOOOO!
this is the first time i've watched top chef from the beginning, so i feel watching it until the end is the way to go. go kevin and bryan!!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
it begins now...
i am writing this while i wait for my english 103 class to start. i have about 50 minutes....so i'll do my best to rant about certain things....
1. taking english 103 again...
that's right. my asshole teacher from spring failed me and now i have take the course over. hopefully this time will be different and i won't lose my mind like last semester. i am ONLY taking this course, nothing else. i didn't want to overwhelm myself like i did before. i've never had to take a course again and i'm feeling a wee bit nervous about it. i know this will pass once i am in it. being on the LACC campus is sort of the same, but it seems more crowded than before. obviously with CA budget cuts, LACC has definitely seen better days. it's still "under construction" and it's as dusty as ever.
2. national equality march in DC
upper middle class gays and lesbians got together and marched for equal rights. they want obama to fix everything and don't give a FUCK. most of these folks woke up when prop 8 in CA didn't pass. which is very unfortunate within itself. :-( if i hear one more straight person say "why did prop 8 pass in los angeles county?" i am going to lose IT!!
same sex couples should have the same rights as hetero folks, that's a obvious given! but i think once same sex marriage happens in CA, most of the major LGBT organizations will stop fighting the good LGBT fight. that fight contains of health care, LGBT youth, racism, classism, etc. i think CA showed it's true ignorant colors when prop 8 passed. because that's when NUMEROUS gays/lesbians blamed black/latinos for it passing. living in so cal during this time was sort of nuts. i saw my own co workers blame obama for not doing anything more for prop 8, along with blaming black folks. UGH!!!!!! anyway...folks that went to NEM in DC felt togetherness and blamed obama for everything. it would have been nice if all those folks would have wrote to their CONGRESSPERSON about repealing DADT...but lady gaga was singing Imagine...so i guess not...
i'll rant more later tho. i gotta get something in my stomach before class. i hope books aren't crazy expensive. keep on fighting the good fight. ;-)
1. taking english 103 again...
that's right. my asshole teacher from spring failed me and now i have take the course over. hopefully this time will be different and i won't lose my mind like last semester. i am ONLY taking this course, nothing else. i didn't want to overwhelm myself like i did before. i've never had to take a course again and i'm feeling a wee bit nervous about it. i know this will pass once i am in it. being on the LACC campus is sort of the same, but it seems more crowded than before. obviously with CA budget cuts, LACC has definitely seen better days. it's still "under construction" and it's as dusty as ever.
2. national equality march in DC
upper middle class gays and lesbians got together and marched for equal rights. they want obama to fix everything and don't give a FUCK. most of these folks woke up when prop 8 in CA didn't pass. which is very unfortunate within itself. :-( if i hear one more straight person say "why did prop 8 pass in los angeles county?" i am going to lose IT!!
same sex couples should have the same rights as hetero folks, that's a obvious given! but i think once same sex marriage happens in CA, most of the major LGBT organizations will stop fighting the good LGBT fight. that fight contains of health care, LGBT youth, racism, classism, etc. i think CA showed it's true ignorant colors when prop 8 passed. because that's when NUMEROUS gays/lesbians blamed black/latinos for it passing. living in so cal during this time was sort of nuts. i saw my own co workers blame obama for not doing anything more for prop 8, along with blaming black folks. UGH!!!!!! anyway...folks that went to NEM in DC felt togetherness and blamed obama for everything. it would have been nice if all those folks would have wrote to their CONGRESSPERSON about repealing DADT...but lady gaga was singing Imagine...so i guess not...
i'll rant more later tho. i gotta get something in my stomach before class. i hope books aren't crazy expensive. keep on fighting the good fight. ;-)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
i still love letterman
on monday night, david letterman came clean about his "cheating" affairs on his talk show. he only did this because he had to testify this week to a grad jury about the affairs and how a CBS employee tried to blackmail him for two million dollars. i've read different opinions of this online. honestly i can't believe many local news stations had letterman as their top story. I would have thought the following links below would have been first...but I guess that's only me...
Boo Burbank Police! FBI has got ya now...
American Apparel is passing out pink slips
Thousands missing after Indonesian earthquake
Tsunami hit Samoa :*(
but none of that news is worthy enough for the city of los angeles. even though so. cal has the BIGGEST population of samoans. anyhoo....back to letterman. i am writing about letterman right now is because i've read numerous negative blogs about how much they don't like letterman because of this ordeal. many have said that he used his show to manipulate his audience about his situation. i don't think this is true at all and folks need to take a chill pill. here's all we need to know folks....
1. letterman had an affair with a female staffer in 2004.
2. the affair ended in 2004.
3. the lady he had the affair with, ended up with the idiot who thought he can blackmail letterman for 2 million dollars.
4. this brings us to present day...the end.
what's unfortunate about this now is that everyone knows about this. his wife, family, the lady and staff have to go through it all over again. i'm sure this wasn't the first time letterman's wife heard about this, because this happened in 2004. i HOPE letterman told his wife the truth. i'm sure he did though? they were dating for over 23 years before she married him. this was probably one of the MANY reasons why she chose to "date" him for that long. i wouldn't think letterman would date a woman that foolish. why do some think letterman was the one that didn't want to get married, i'm sure she felt the same way. letterman kept it real on monday night. he told us what the skinny was and he's moving on. i think it's fucking hysterical that this idiot thought he was going to get away with this.
i still love you letterman. i gots your back. even though you have no idea who i am. i dream of the day we'll have whiskey and smoke cigars together. honestly i hate cigars, but that's how much i dig ya. :-)
UPDATE: it seems that mrs. letterman had no idea about him cheating on her in 2004. you can read about it here. i don't know how i really feel about this. honestly letterman needs to work on his shit.
Boo Burbank Police! FBI has got ya now...
American Apparel is passing out pink slips
Thousands missing after Indonesian earthquake
Tsunami hit Samoa :*(
but none of that news is worthy enough for the city of los angeles. even though so. cal has the BIGGEST population of samoans. anyhoo....back to letterman. i am writing about letterman right now is because i've read numerous negative blogs about how much they don't like letterman because of this ordeal. many have said that he used his show to manipulate his audience about his situation. i don't think this is true at all and folks need to take a chill pill. here's all we need to know folks....
1. letterman had an affair with a female staffer in 2004.
2. the affair ended in 2004.
3. the lady he had the affair with, ended up with the idiot who thought he can blackmail letterman for 2 million dollars.
4. this brings us to present day...the end.
what's unfortunate about this now is that everyone knows about this. his wife, family, the lady and staff have to go through it all over again. i'm sure this wasn't the first time letterman's wife heard about this, because this happened in 2004. i HOPE letterman told his wife the truth. i'm sure he did though? they were dating for over 23 years before she married him. this was probably one of the MANY reasons why she chose to "date" him for that long. i wouldn't think letterman would date a woman that foolish. why do some think letterman was the one that didn't want to get married, i'm sure she felt the same way. letterman kept it real on monday night. he told us what the skinny was and he's moving on. i think it's fucking hysterical that this idiot thought he was going to get away with this.
i still love you letterman. i gots your back. even though you have no idea who i am. i dream of the day we'll have whiskey and smoke cigars together. honestly i hate cigars, but that's how much i dig ya. :-)
UPDATE: it seems that mrs. letterman had no idea about him cheating on her in 2004. you can read about it here. i don't know how i really feel about this. honestly letterman needs to work on his shit.
Friday, October 2, 2009
polanski raped a 13 year old girl
i've been reading up on this like crazy all week long. i'm sort of at the point of not talking about it anymore. but i hope polanski gets his ass over to the US and takes FULL accountability for what he did.
numerous "hollywood" liberals have been petitioning for polanski to not be prosecuted for the rape he committed over 30 years ago. whoopi goldburg came to his defense, saying that we don't know all the deets and it's happened SO LONG AGO, so what, who cares, that's Whoopi for ya. natalie portman, david lynch, woody allen (no surprise), pedro almodavar (who i fucking LOVE) and even the head of a fucking feminist organization thinks we shouldn't prosecute polanski for this.
but the back of my mind can't stop thinking of the fact that he DRUGGED and RAPED a 13 year old girl. sources say the victim has "forgiven" him and chose not to prosecute him. honestly i don't know if we can fully believe her. only because the LA Times release an article today about how polanski tried to pay her and her family off with the cheddar back in 1993. why in the HELL would he try to do that if he was INNOCENT. Hmmm....maybe it's because....
HE RAPED AND DRUGGED A 13 YR OLD GIRL!!!! WTF!?!?!?!?
all polanski had to do, back in the 70's, was to turn himself in to the LAPD. honestly because of his class and white status, he would have not done as much time as he thought he would have. i'm sure he would have gone to jail, but would have been released early for good behavior, or pay a crazy ass fine. instead, the asshole left the country and never looked back. instead in 2002, when the academy gave him an honorable oscar for rape, no, it was for his movies.
yes he only did it one time. yes we can be spending our tax money on other things that are more "important". the victim is older now and what satisfaction would she get out of this now?! (people actually think that?!?) but i can write more and more on how this asshole is slime....or i can pass the mic to chris rock.
chris rock rocked my world last night. he was on the jay leno show and dumb ass leno (sorry, but i don't find leno's homophobic, racist ass funny) briefly mentioned polanski. chris rock's reaction is PRICELESS and WAAAAAY long overdue. i'm glad someone in fucked up hollywood has some god damn sense.
numerous "hollywood" liberals have been petitioning for polanski to not be prosecuted for the rape he committed over 30 years ago. whoopi goldburg came to his defense, saying that we don't know all the deets and it's happened SO LONG AGO, so what, who cares, that's Whoopi for ya. natalie portman, david lynch, woody allen (no surprise), pedro almodavar (who i fucking LOVE) and even the head of a fucking feminist organization thinks we shouldn't prosecute polanski for this.
but the back of my mind can't stop thinking of the fact that he DRUGGED and RAPED a 13 year old girl. sources say the victim has "forgiven" him and chose not to prosecute him. honestly i don't know if we can fully believe her. only because the LA Times release an article today about how polanski tried to pay her and her family off with the cheddar back in 1993. why in the HELL would he try to do that if he was INNOCENT. Hmmm....maybe it's because....
HE RAPED AND DRUGGED A 13 YR OLD GIRL!!!! WTF!?!?!?!?
all polanski had to do, back in the 70's, was to turn himself in to the LAPD. honestly because of his class and white status, he would have not done as much time as he thought he would have. i'm sure he would have gone to jail, but would have been released early for good behavior, or pay a crazy ass fine. instead, the asshole left the country and never looked back. instead in 2002, when the academy gave him an honorable oscar for rape, no, it was for his movies.
yes he only did it one time. yes we can be spending our tax money on other things that are more "important". the victim is older now and what satisfaction would she get out of this now?! (people actually think that?!?) but i can write more and more on how this asshole is slime....or i can pass the mic to chris rock.
chris rock rocked my world last night. he was on the jay leno show and dumb ass leno (sorry, but i don't find leno's homophobic, racist ass funny) briefly mentioned polanski. chris rock's reaction is PRICELESS and WAAAAAY long overdue. i'm glad someone in fucked up hollywood has some god damn sense.
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